Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 211, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1915 — Former Rensselaer Resident To Go On Lecture Platform. [ARTICLE]

Former Rensselaer Resident To Go On Lecture Platform.

S. U. Dobbins, of Reynolds, and formerly of this city, has decided to go on the lecture platform. Since leaving Rensselaer Mr. Dobbins lived St Monticello for several years, serving as sheriff of white county, and having the distinction of being the first sheriff to have an office in the present court house. Since moving to Reynolds Mr. Dobbins has become afflicted with an eye trouble that has rendered him almost totally blind, and during a visit to Monticello was only able to recognize old friends by their voices. The Monticello Journal has the following to say in regard to Mr. Dobbins going on the lecture platform: “Necessity being the mother of invention, or rather the effort on the part of Mr. Dobbins, he is going to put his time to good account by going on the lecture platform. He had one lecture entitled “From the Cradle to the Jail,” which he has already delivered several times, and is preparing another that will depict the horrors of morphine and will be a warning to those who have never tampered with it. Mr. Dobbins confesses that for a couple of years, on account of his great bodily pain, morphine was his daily food, and he will speak of the baneful drug as ‘one who has made its acquaintance.”

A picnic dinner was given Sunday at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Grant, of NeWton township, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Ralston and Mrs. Ralston’s mother, Mrs. Morlan, of Kalamazoo, Mich. They are relatives of the Grants, Morlans and others here and relatives to the number of 22 partook of the dinner. They drove through from Kalamazoo in their automobile and this morning left for their home. They will stop over in Crown Point tonight, and tomorrow will finish their trip home.